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Potato Flowers
gary davis wrote:
Let me get this staightt so that I can be sure I understand what I think you said: You have four tyres high and the spuds are three feet above the tyres. Are these bicycle tyres? Or car tyres? If they are car tyres just what have you used for fertilizer? What are they growing in sawdust? Soil? Clay? Sand? I have tried the same thing but never had them grow anywhere close to what you have done. Car tyres, but maybe I exaggerated a wee bit as to height, definitely between 2.0 and 2.5 feet and still growing, though they are tending to flop about a bit now. Growing a brew of clayey soil from the planting hole for an apple tree, garden compost made from hacked out undergrowth in the kids playground behind me (mainly nettles and elder) and a goodly portion of manure in the bottom. Each time I've added more soil, a handful of blood, fish and bone and one of chicken manure pellets has gone in. I tend to give them at least a gallon of water a day now, and if its hot an extra watering can full. The tyres seem to absorb heat from the afternoon sun very well, this may be why they've shot up. I've put som tubs in front of them to shade them now, a couple of days recently there was a danger of growing pre-cooked spuds! Now to the colour of the flower: Pale purple...yummy potatoes underneath all this. I am tying to remember just what kind of potato grows with a purple flower....I think it is a red skinned spud and maybe with a yellow interior. It is an excellent spud. White or yellow interior they will be delicious! I tried a yellow interior potato awhile ago and was impressed by the flavour. Variety unknown, came from the supermarket, but they are white inside and white skin, quite tasty as far as I remember. What I really want to know is how did you get them to grow so well? Tell me and I will follow your lead...thanks! Ah, I'll post the results of digging em up (if there're any to dig!) and eating em. -- Regards, Charles Unobfuscate to reply by mail vnews a in a ring cthorpe roundblob ukfsn anotherblob org "I really cannot tolerate intolerance" |
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